Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond’s film wins an armful of Quartz awards, while Milo Rau’s work bags Best Documentary. The winners of the 2021 Swiss Film Prize were announced during a ceremony filmed live from the studios of Rts in Geneva. My Little Sister by Stéphanie Chuat and Véronique Reymond dominated the scene, scooping four awards in addition to the most prestigious prize (Best Fiction Film), namely Best Screenplay, Best Supporting Actress for Marthe Keller, Best Photography (Filip Zumbrunn) and Best Editing (Myriam Rachmuth). Following the success of the documentary Ladies (2018), the two Lausanne directors are proving (as if they still needed to), with their new film, just how unique and powerful their artistic world combining realism and poetry truly is. The Quartz for Best Documentary, meanwhile, went to The New Gospel by the (theatre and film) director and writer Milo Rau, who, with the help of Yvan Sagnet,...
The Bible, according to Milo Rau, “is a book about a guy losing his fight against state power,” but who ultimately prevails by establishing a movement. It is that struggle that he depicts in his new film, “The New Gospel.”
The documentary project is a kind of political Passion Play in which Cameroonian activist Yvan Sagnet portrays a Jesus who leads a revolt for the rights of migrants that were forced to flee their homelands and cross the Mediterranean only to be “enslaved” on the agricultural fields of southern Italy.
The film, which premieres in Venice Days, is part of Rau’s “Trilogy of Ancient Myths” that began with “Orestes in Mosul” and concludes next year with “Antigone in the Amazon.”
Thematically, “The New Gospel” also follows his 2018 work “The Congo Tribunal,” which examines the causes of the Congolese Civil War, a conflict he describes as the “biggest and bloodiest economic war in human history.
The documentary project is a kind of political Passion Play in which Cameroonian activist Yvan Sagnet portrays a Jesus who leads a revolt for the rights of migrants that were forced to flee their homelands and cross the Mediterranean only to be “enslaved” on the agricultural fields of southern Italy.
The film, which premieres in Venice Days, is part of Rau’s “Trilogy of Ancient Myths” that began with “Orestes in Mosul” and concludes next year with “Antigone in the Amazon.”
Thematically, “The New Gospel” also follows his 2018 work “The Congo Tribunal,” which examines the causes of the Congolese Civil War, a conflict he describes as the “biggest and bloodiest economic war in human history.
- 9/8/2020
- by Ed Meza
- Variety Film + TV
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